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Tuesday, October 23, 1973
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RX for RMN: Impeachment
While apprehensive newsmen were recounting the latest horrors of the Nixon administration Saturday after a federal investigation solution. Take two and go to bed. Everything would be fine in the morning.
But everything wasn't fine in the morning. Nor was it fine even by yesterday morning. Representatives and senators were urging either the resignation or the impeachment of President Richard Nixon. People in Washington were honking their car horns for impeachment. George Meany and the shouting for impeachment. A group was organizing here in Lawrence for impeachment. And even the Salina Journal was calling for impeachment.
Meanwhile, the White House was trying not to look as if it were obstructing justice. Mrs. Nixon, in fact, conducted White House visitors through the Oval Office, an added attraction to the usual tour.
And White House aides were laying down their usual line that the whole thing would blow over once Nixon had a chance to "clear up the confusion" with another 30 per cent success. (Perhaps his 30 per cent approval rating would drop to zero if the confusion were cleared up.)
The charge, of course, is obstruction of justice in the investigation of the Watergate scandals. Nixon Saturday had fired Archibald Cox, the special Watergate prosecutor appointed by the Justice Department, for persisting in seeking White House tapes relevant to his investigation. In the process, the President of the Atty. to through the investigation of Atty. Gen. Elliott Richardson and the dismissal of Deputy Atty. Gen. William Ruckelshaus before he found a henchman to fire Cox.
Most of all, acting Atten. Gen.
Robert Bork was seeking to reassure by miming Nixon's repeatedly asserted desire for a "vigorous prosecution" in the Watergate this year, two years before become a mockery. Nixon apparently never has really wanted a vigorous prosecution.
The irresponsible solution would be to take two Excedrin and put up with the administration that in just a few months has produced not only two scandalous Justice Department shakeups and a White House staff purge, but also the conviction and resignation of a vice president.
And, of course, there were the tapes. Nixon fought two court battles against Cox subpoenas for tapes of specific White House conversations. He said he would abide by a definitive Supreme Court ruling on the subject, but then he averted that eventuality by refusing to appeal the case there before the deadline Friday.
In this light, the events of the weekend appear deliberately calculated and timed. Nixon put Cox, an honest man, in a position from which he could only defy the Presidency and be able to poenas for the tapes. He ordered the impossible, then fired Cox for insubordination.
Surely this is obstruction of justice. The only responsible solution is for Congress to start action on the matter, and not keep it that were to be introduced today.
It was characteristically Nixonese. He has a defense for his action—insubordination—and the investigation of Watergate is back in the hands of people he can control. The purpose of his pledge to allow an independent prosecution has been subverted. And those Nixon wants to protect can be protected.
Bob Simison
Loss of Spoils
Logs of various White House assistants and administration personnel involved in the Watergate coverup were promised in June, Cox said, but he never got them. He was informed of former Nixon nides H. R. Haledman, John Ehrlichman and John Dean but was turned down.
By MIKE CAUSEY The Washington Post
Round number two has come up for officials who came into government with the backing of Agnew and had hitched on a star, which was rising until just recently.
WASHINGTON - Shell-shocked GOP stallows in government are in the midst of a second, though much smaller, transitional period, two months after Agnew's sudden departure three weeks ago.
Many middle and top grade federal officials, both career and political, our their current jobs to the vice president, or the men around him. Until last week they were progrades of a potential president. Now, of the same people are running for cover.
At least statements by Cox add credence to such a conclusion. Cox said Saturday that the White House had been less than cooperative in providing information besides the disputed tape record without success since May to get evidence from White House papers and files, he said.
VICE PRESIDENTS - Agnew, Humphrey, Johnson, Nixon and Truman- are asking the requests are for federal jobs. All have responded, although the pressure has been greater lately because federal jobs are getting better, in pay and prestige, all the
The first shakeup came immediately after Nixon was re-elected when he surprised political appointees who had labored to get him into office, resignations for possible acceptance. Relatively few people got their walking papers in that exercise, but it did dampen the spirits of many loyalists who thought a new year would mean a year contract extension for themselves.
"We get hundreds of recommendations from Congress, the vice president and the White House," the official said last week. "For people who want to believe it or not, we take them only if they
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are qualified, but naturally a letter from somebody on high belts."
HE SAID HIS AGENCIY had placed at least one key Agnew appointee in a top job, but that the man had left little more than a year. But that man, in turn, hired him and that number can be multiplied to apply to virtually every other federal agency.
Another pointed out that vice president-designate Gerald Ford will no doubt have highly qualified friends who now would like to move to Washington, D.C. "If they have in mind some of the jobs now held by Agnew and Nixon," he said, "it is definitely in favor of the new man."
"I would say that it would be safe to assume that anybody who came in with the vice president's recommendation is a little more risky than either he need be or not." an official said.
"At one time, a recommendation from the vice president's office was something a man could do without. Definitely would want in his personnel folder." Now that same recommendation, he said, is more like a "wanted" poster that might be out of the past to haunt the town marshal.
Still another official, this one a long-time career man, put it this way:
U.S. Education Equal to Arab Oil?
To the Editor:
Observation of the present Arab-Iraeli war suggests that there will be no clear cut, quick victory for either side. Because of this evolution from a quick conflict to a real war, both sides are sustaining large amounts of material losses.
The two godfathers of the war, the United States and the U.S.S.R., have taken the position of being the materials and arms suppliers. As the war continues, Israel, because of its paucity of weapons compared with the vast number of resources request more arms from the United States.
The decision of whether to honor this request was not immediate. A major consideration in this hesitation was the stance taken by the Arab nations. They (the Arab nations) issued statements that were in effect, thinly veiled threats that stated that such attacks would presently supply to the United States, if the United States continued to援疆 Israel.
It is widely assumed that the Arab nations hold the trump card in the oil vs. arms supply controversy. Their stance is that they have nothing to lose in the form of a United States counter threat. In simpler terms, "they have the oil and we need it".
On close examination of the total picture, however, there are important, ailit less severe, or small changes.
Readers Respond
While the Arabs have the natural resource of the oil at their disposal, the United States has a resource of its own that is more expensive. The source is our university educational system.
Arab nations if they implement their oil embargo against the United States.
Throughout the United States there are Arab students enrolled in our universities who are being trained in all aspects of engineering, business, economics, and the arts. They are trained not only to extract their own oil, but also in areas that will enable them to use the profits derived from the oil. The top priority in Arab nations is to create a more flexible way of life for their people, with respect to their catalyst and education serving as the tool.
THERE IS LITTLE HOPE of bringing this spending under control through our current system. Communications Workers of America (CWA) Secretary-Treasurer Shawn Kelley told the subcommittee that "at the current rate of inflation and with the built-in increases in
The students are sent here by their governments mainly to learn the above skills and then to return home to use them. They train on our educational system is obvious.
Reform must go beyond giving a reasonable opportunity to all who wish to run for public office. The amount of money spent on political campaigns is virtually out of reach for many, and much spent by candidates seeking office is estimated in the neighborhood of $400 million.
Union Contributions
Seats in universities are taken by foreign students at the expense of domestic students. The cost of programs. It is a fact that tuition alone pays less than one half of the total cost of educating a student. The remainder of the cost is borne by private contributions from the university.
To do this, we must commit ourselves to a system of publicly financed elections. Anything else would continue to perpetuate the election of wealthy candidates at the expense of truly representative legislative bodies.
Ambassadorships also have taken a more dominant position in the market place. The most disgusting aspect of this practice is that in the eyes of the world we reduce our highest ranking diplomatic envoys to little more than a pack of rich kids. They may not be the best for you, but they are assured that they won't be caught eating steaks with their salaf fork at state dinners.
SO, IN THE LIGHT of Watergate and related money-oriented scandals, Congress is beginning to discuss some type of reform in the department. The natural goal of any such reform would be to end the concept "politicians for rent to the highest contributor," as APL-CIO directed by Attorney General Robert A. Litwin in recent testimony before the Senate Privileges and Elections Subcommittee.
By JOSEPH A. BEIRNE
Corporate antitrust problems can apparently be solved by doing out a little cash. The only problem is that the assessments are being made by political parties in the form of contributions and not by courts in the form of fines.
Special to the Washington Post
WASHINGTON—If there is one positive contribution to the American way of life that the current administration has made, it is that it supports money in politics with crystal clarity.
Never before have we been treated to such a blatant exhibition of governmental favoritism to those who came up with the money at the right time.
campaign costs, campaign spending by the year 1984 could reach an estimated $1 billion.
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In the midst of all reform talk, there are healthy doses of finger-pointing and hand-washing. Just as I think the primary villains have been the corporate campaign financiers, others cite labor's political contributions.
If you are expecting me to say that we don't contribute, forget it. We most definitely contribute voluntary dollars to candidates who support the views of millions of working men and women. There is a difference here and it involves people.
Labor unions are about the only major organizations that represent large numbers of working people and are in a position to speak out on their behalf.
IN THE CONTRIBUTION of political funds, the AFL-CIO has long depended on the Committee on Political Education (COPE). The money that COPE dispenses goes to candidates of labor's choosing, who are elected by voters in the people. There are no "bag men" for COPE money, and there are no Mexican landmachines necessary.
Within CWA, we have taken steps to insure full membership participation in dispensing of political contributions. Advice on the proper disclosure before contributions are made which would effect the political status in their districts or states. Only if we operate in a democratic manner internally can we hope that our members will ensure the process externally.
In the future, when reform does come to campaigning, I for one will be happy to see labor conform to all money control regulations. But labor's members, the people, will never abandon participation in the political process. They will always be empowered and protected. Failure to keep people involved would result in turning campaigns back over to money barons and thus leave our democratic system twisting slowly in the wind.
(The writer is president of the Communications Workers of America.)
by Sokoloff
Griff and the Unicorn
This is by no means an indictment of all foreign students. Students from other nations are welcome to learn skills that will allow their countries to grow, prosper and advance. They also have learning skills in the United States to use, in effect, against the United States.
There are two systems involved here, the world trade system and the world educational system. A world trade system requires the interchange of goods. The world educational system can work similarly, if the Arab nations choose to interrupt the trade system by cutting off oil supplies, Western nations, especially the United States, during the Arab students to their homelands.
It is safe to say that a government sponsored foreign student does not make a good alumnus who would financially aid the university in years to come. In effect the tax payers and alumni of the United States' universities are subalizing their own oil
Oil embargo threats can only speed up the technological process of finding other power sources. If a realistic power alternative is developed, Arabian oil may become nothing more than one component in a power source that will certainly demand for the oil would certainly decline.
Since both sides in the Mideast war look to the United States and U.S.R. for assistance, we do not without making threats to the supplying nations. To continue and to expand these threats will only serve to multiply possible threats in the Arab nations as well as the United States.
Markets for Arabian oil are not unlimited nor do the Arab nations control all of the world's oil output. Indeed, oil resources as of yet untapped in Alaska, Colorado, the Pacific, Saudi Arabia, etc., can make the Arab contributions to world oil supplies insufficient.
If oil is not sold to the United States, the most industrialized country in the world, the demand around the rest of the world is not sufficient to take up the enforced slack. Oil will bring wealth to the Arab nations only if it is sold equitably. If it is not sold, because of political enforced embargoes, it is as worthless as the sand it rests under.
Larry Bridges
Larry Bridges
Overland Park Junior
Brad Raiser
St Louis Mon Schoen
St. Louis, Mo. Sophomore
The Definition of 'Jews'
To The Editor:
The editorial entitled "Stay out, America" in the Kansan of October 18 is one of the crudest examples of religious and racial biography I have ever read.
The writer, Eric Meyer, states that the United States is becoming involved in the latest Mideast war and asks the question "Why??" His answer would be better if it appended a declaration. I quote the reason as that Jew is a strong political force in America."
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Because the term Jew is never defined, each reader may justify his bigotry with whatever stereotype he desires. From the left, the Jew is the "financier" who is the root of all evil. From the right the Jew is the "radical" who controls international communism. Everyone may use the all-purpose Jew to vent his hatred.
In the United States about three per cent of the population is of the Jewish faith. These people range from ultra orthodox slum dwellers in New York to rich suburbanities in Shawnee Mission. Their religion ranges from the ultra liberal modernism of the midstum to the fundamental and literal acceptance of the Bible of the Hasidim.
Racially, most are white, but some are oriental, and some are Negro (to wit, Sammy Davis Jr.). Politically, Jews can be found in virtually every political movement although almost all of them know what these people have in common? Nothing except the acceptance of a religion which does not accept Jesus Christ as the messiah.
On the world scene the situation is the same. Jews may be found in Kenya, China, India and Syria. Their ethnic and racial backgrounds are varied as the countries of their residence.
Meyer's claim that the "jewish" control Meyer's foreign policy is, aside from being an impression of a conspiracy, based on facts.
J. likes cold busi aver obse
face. The largely liberal centers of the Jewish faith are at best three per cent of the population and did not support President Nixon in either 1968 or 1972. This claim is almost as absurd as the Nazi claim that the Jews built the extermination camps after World War II in order to make the world feel sorry for them.
Meyer's comment that Israelis are lighter than Arabs is almost as ignorant as it disgusting. About 75 per cent of Israel's population are refugees from the Arab world, and many of them distinguishable from Arabs. Western Jews, however, tend to be of lighter hue.
The people of the United States support Israel by an 8 to 1 margin (according to the latest Gallup poll) because Israel is a democracy which extends full civil rights to all Americans, including dictatorships, which oppress and murder minorities. The American people know that if the Arabs were to conquer Israel they would kill every man, woman and child there. Has Meyer's forgotten what happened when the Olympics last year or at Khartoum?
If you go to Israel today you might meet a woman with a tattoo saying "Field where" German Army> on her arm. Would you wear it or leave her oldest child were blond and blue-eyed?
I had hoped that the Kansan had improved from the days of Joe Nassar and Tomb Sweeper.
This is because of a unique Christian custom in east Europe practiced each Easter. Following the Easter services, some people go to the Jewish ghettos and rape all the women they could get their hands on. After a few generations of this any dark skinned people would tend to become blind. So if you see it, you must remember, it's the Christian in him.
Jonathan Jordan Second year Law Student
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Reality Often Bitter
In an earlier letter, I argued for the use of U.S. persuasion to try to further the freedom of man. I haven't changed my mind, and I still consider the Israeli hills a sacred place in the desert. I rusticum a house committee resolution, but that doesn't say it is any less necessary.
To the Editor:
When the Jews moved into Israel, they didn't throw the Arabs out and keep them out. Look at your figures and you will know that Israel is far from being 100 per cent Jewish.
Eric Meyer makes evident in his Kansan editorial of Oct. 18 his belief that the United States should stay away from involvement in anything resembling war. His aversion to violence and death as a means to an end is admirable. His grasp of reality isn't.
I, like Meyer, would be much haspier if I had never heard of war and death, of concentration camps and the Diaspora, in short, of inhumane. But I am not blind, nor afraid to do something I'd rather not do, if it would achieve a necessary end.
The majority of the Arab nations have, by now, made evident to the even the smallest person their intention to remove Israel from the map, doubled along with numerous Israelis. Why? Because the Israelis are Jews, they made good where the Arabs didn't and have successfully defended their very existence three times.
What am I saying? That you and your convictions won't hold up to well passively
Anyone for giving America back to the Indians?
But Israel belonged to the Arabs and the Israel took it away from them, you cry! They have taken it away from them, you cry!
So face the world, Meyer, and notice that when the other guy uses war, you either kill him or give up.
without struggle it is cruel and ugly, so try to help change it instead of hiding from it.
Overland Park Junior
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